More than sixty years on, an old airman is visited by dreams of the Second World War. A Lancaster bomber returns from a top-secret mission, badly damaged and almost out of fuel. With heroic skill, the pilot manages to bring it down on a stretch of beach on the Suffolk coast.
Reliving his own wartime experiences? No. The old man was involved in the project all right, but he was not on that particular sortie. So why should his unconscious mind hold such vivid memories of it? Vivid – but incomplete.
Why, in the dream, does the plane land in an England that knows nothing of aerial warfare, in a world that has never suffered global conflict?
The old man’s wife is frightened. His GP is curious. And certain officials in the Ministry of Defence are suddenly very interested…
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